"I know when I was growing up, in my grandparents' car there was literally a hole in the backseat of their car," Garcia admitted, "and they would say, 'Don't step in the hole,' and we'd just be jumping around back there and the car would be completely full of smoke except for what could escape out the hole in the bottom." While joking that the original title for the show was Keep Hope Alive, Garcia insisted that there is, in fact, a lot of dark humor on the show but that they would never be specifically naming the state or city that the characters live in on the show – the city which is allowing young Jimmy (Lucas Neff) to ignorantly and dangerously raise a newborn baby.

"I'm concerned that [the characters are] sometimes viewed as potential bad people that shouldn't be raising the children because these are all the people that I grew up around," Garcia continued. "Starting to get a little worried about my upbringing."

"We all have these stories of like near-death experiences as children," Dillahunt stated, "that we look back on fondly." Neff, who plays the inexperienced teen father Jimmy, recounted a scary, yet still funny, incident from his own childhood. "I remember when I was, like, an overweight child and I fell through my family's porch," he smiled, "and I was stuck halfway. And I was scared because I knew a woodchuck lived under the porch. And it was snowing and very cold. And my father came outside and saw me and he just laughed." And within that story lies the humor for Garcia's Raising Hope. Part Raising Arizona, part, well, My Name Is Earl, Hope will hopefully find an audience on FOX when it debuts on Tuesday, September 21st.

Cloris Leachman, who plays the senile grandmother of the family, "Maw Maw," provided an exhausting amount of sassy "old gal" entertainment at the panel. In fact, there were several times when we all wondered just how far off Maw Maw's dementia was from the actress portraying her. "I'm so sick of Betty White," Leachman joked (?) after being asked if she was competing for the title of "It girl for AARP." "Never liked her," Leachman savored. "We gotta get Betty White on a future episode," Dillahunt added. Garcia then chimed in with "Yeah. We're working on a lesbian episode."